CENTRAL AMERICA – Devastating drought triggered the collapse of the ancient Maya civilisation in Central America, new research has found. Analysis of the Mexico climate hundreds of years ago revealed that rainfall plummeted by 70 percent as the Mayan empire...

CENTRAL AMERICA – Recent drought has led to the loss of some 280,000 hectares of beans and maize in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, potentially affecting the food and nutrition situation of more than two million people, two United Nations agencies warned on...

COSTA RICA – Hundreds of Nicaraguans are arriving in Costa Rica daily, fleeing the conflict in their country. The country is straining to provide services to the refugees and undergoing a sense of deja vu back to the days of the Nicaraguan Revolution. A refugee...

by Aislinn Laing and Felipe Iturrieta August 17, 2018 SANTIAGO – Nine planes were forced to make emergency changes to their routes within Chilean, Argentine and Peruvian airspace on Thursday because of bomb threats issued to Chile’s civil aviation authority, its...

by By Molly Redden July 22, 2018 The violence driving people to seek shelter in the U.S. has its roots in American foreign policy. Since the day Donald Trump began his run for the presidential office, he has promoted the idea that people who flee to the U.S. are...